A staggering 1.5 million people died from tuberculosis (TB) last year, the UN health agency said on Thursday, October 17 2019 in an appeal for far greater funding and political support to eradicate the curable and preventable disease.
Spain's Supreme Court has sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison for sedition over their role in an independence referendum in 2017.
A white student on a middle school trip to Washington, DC, spat on a black patron at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture on Friday, prompting his class to be ejected from the museum.